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H. SHAW & J. A. MQOULLOCH. PACKAGE COMPRISING FRAGILE ARTICLES.

No. 377,644. Patented Feb. '7, 1888.

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PACKAGE-"COMPRISING PRAGILE ARTICLES.

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Ma /W zmma j NITE STATES :ATENT HENRY summon NEW ORLEANS, LOUISIANA, AND JOHN Aus'rix' MUG/UL- VLOOH, or GLENOOE, MARYLAND, ASSIGNORS ro TlIE wnnsmon moangnsnmtrcasimcnr GOMPANX-FQF XEW JERSEY.

, .PACKAGE COMPRlSlNG FRAGILE ARTICLhS.

SPECIFICATION forming part ofLetters Patent No. 377,644, dated February'], 1888.

Application filed September 20, 1987. Serial No. 350,252.

To all whom it may concern: 4 Be it known that we, HENRY SHAW and JOHN-AUsTIN MoOULLoeH, citizens of the United States, residing, respectively, at New 5 Orleans, in the parish of Orleans and State of Louisiana, and at Glencoe, in the county of Baltimore and State of Maryland, have invented certfain new and useful Improvements in Packages Comprising Fragile Articles, of which the following is a full, clear, and exact specification.

This invention has for its object to provide novel means for packing and unpacking arti- Gfes or a fragile nature such as the skeleton I 5 frames or mantles of earthy'oxides used as incandescent devices for gasburners, and fine porcelain, statuettes, and other devices of such fragile material as render them liable to break during transportation-whereby said fragile devices can be safely transported without danger of breaking and be then placedin condition for immediate use. At present there is. known the tVelsbach incandescent device,-

consisting of a skeleton hood or mantle com posed of earthy oxidesfwhich devices are so extremely fragile in their character as to be easily broken in transportation, and to avoid this is one especial feature of our invention.

The invention consists of a package com- 3@ prising a fragile article-such as a mantle for incandescent gaslight illumination-entirely incorporated within a solid mass of paraffine or like material, whereby the article is protected from damage during transportation and may be safely unpacked, as hereiuafterset forth.

In the accompanying drawings, Figure l is a perspective View ofa skeleton or perforated incandescent device for gas-burners suspended 0 from its support or holder. Fig. 2 is a perv spective view of a foraminous tube used in "packing the incandescent devices alluded to. Fig. 3 is a perspeetiveview of an incandescent device with its protecting medium molded thereupon. Figs; 4 and 5 are perspective views, respectively, of a porcelain cup before and after being incased in its molded protect-' ing medium; and Fig. 6 is a vertical sectional View.of an apparatus for removing the pro- (Model) tccting medium from the article when the lat- 5o ter is to be used or at'any other time. p

In order to enable those skilled inthe art to make and use our invention, we will now describe the same in detail, referring to the drawings, where-- The letter A indicates a skeleton hood or mantle composed of OEIIU'IYOXldQS adapted to be used as an incandescent device for gasburners by suspending it from the upper end of a wire holder, B, to support the device over agas flame. These incandescent devices, as before stated, are extremely fragile, and to transport them in --safety..and avoid breakage wehave devised the following means: Atube,

0, preferably tapering,is furnished throughout its area with numerous .perforations, and this tube is inserted within the skeleton incandescent device to internally support the same. The incandesceutdevice, with thetube and wire holder B, is then placed in a mold, the internal surfaces of which in no place touch the incandescent device, after which melted paraffiue or other wax or similar fusible substance is poured into the mold until it is filled. The paraffiue or other fusible mate- 7 rial is then permitted to harden and set, and thereby theincandescentdeviee,tube, and wire holder are molded within and enlirelycovered and concealed by the paraffine, which becomes a protecting medium for the incandescent dnr- 8o ing transportation. Inasmuch as the incandescent device is, entirely within a molded body of the p ara'lliue, which is of such thickness as to prevent jars, shocks, or blows direetl y acting on the packed device, the latter is thoroughly protected and can be safely transported in a manner more perfect than when these incandescent devices-are simply dipped in melted parafline to strengthen them for transportation.

The molded protecting medium is fused and melted off the packed device when desired to use I the. latter, and this we accomplish in an efficient manner and save and utilize the parafifine or'otherwax or fusible material by an unpacking'apparatus as follows, reference now being made to Fig. 6, where the letter F indicates a supporting base or pillar, and D a hollow cylindrical or other shaped case having one open end to rest upon the top of the supporting-base. This base has a vertical passagc-way,f, and a set-screw, G, is tapped laterally throu 'h the base, so that its inner end can cxtcnd into the said passageway. An outlet-faucet, E, is arranged at the lower end of the cylindrical or other shaped case, and under the outlet-fauce is placed a receiver, H, of any desired construction. The device to be unpacked being within the case and the wire rod B held in the vertical passage-way by the set-screw G,heat is supplied by any suitable means to the upper end of the case, thereby melting theparaffinc body Lin which the incandescent device is molded. When all the paraffine is melted, the faucet E is opened and said paraffine permitted to flow into the receiver H for future use in packing other articles. The case I) is new lifted off the incandescent device, the set-screw G is loosened, and the device then removed from the base, after which theiniernalsupportingtubeis removed,

mediate use. In packing other fragile articles, as in Fig. 5, the pal-affine can be melted off in our unpacking device or by any other means t It will be understood that we do not herein claim the apparatus employed in packing and unpacking articles of a fragile nature, as such is reserved for a future application.

\Vhat we claim as our invention is- A package comprising a fragile article-such as a mantle for incandescent gas-light illumi nati,on-entirely incdrporated within a solid mass of paraffine or like described material, whereby the article is protected from'damage during transport and may be safely u npacked, as set forth.

HENRY suAW. JOHN AUSTIN MOCULLOGH.

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